| Name:
| Michele Velthuizen <michele@ash.nl>
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| Age:
| F 38
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| Mass:
| 70 kg
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| Size:
| 172 cm
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| Bikes:
| Nop's Special 785 (SWB USS); Michele's City-Bike (ASS). For local
shopping still using 20 year old typical (very heavy) Dutch regular
bike with baskets in front and back.
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| Rides:
| 5000 km/year commuting to work. Together with Nop undertook a 2-year
journey on recumbents in the USA, Japan and Korea of some 40000 km
length; wrote it up in the book "Pedalling Unknown Paths" (ISBN:
0 86332 958 6 Classfn: Travel). Ian Bob sez check it out.
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| Where:
| The Hague, The Netherlands
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| Works:
| Translator from/to Japanese and Korean; Adm. Dept of the American
School in The Hague
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| Likes:
| cats, kites, arguing with my sister in Japanese, so husband is kept
in the dark, husband Nop in that order (i.e. hobbies other than
recumbency ;-)) Otherwise:
www.euronet.nl/users/nop
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| Climbs:
| special memories of Beartooth pass (Montana, USA); Timmiljoch pass
in the Italian Alps. So achievements would score 4.5, but climbing
speed perhaps only 2 or 3.
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| Crash:
| not surveyed
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| Beard:
| NO, nice long weavy hair though.
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| Name:
| Nop Velthuizen <nop@euronet.nl>
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| Age:
| M 37
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| Mass:
| 80 kg
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| Size:
| 170 cm
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| Bikes:
| own-design and make compact SWB USS, suspended in the rear, several
models over the years
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| Rides:
| 5000 km/year, varies greatly year by year. Depends on type of footwear
that's en vogue among the recumbent cyclists in Holland. Present
trends favour bias toward thick rough knitted grey wool socks
combined with brown sandals!! (called "geitenwollensokken looks" )
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| Where:
| Den Hague, The Netherlands
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| Works:
| professsional kite designer; aiborne photography expert; recumbent
bike builder; wind buggy tamer:
www.euronet.nl/users/vliegop
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| Likes:
| knocking down walls, removing entire floors in houses, so they can
be remodelled acc. to Japanese custom; among other things.
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| Climbs:
| 4 to 5 (I like climbing even though there are no mountains available
in Holland).
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| Crash:
| not surveyed
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| Beard:
| YES
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